USDA: Data Breach Involving at Least 150,000 People
Ed Oswald writes on BetaNews:
For years, the social security numbers of thousands of recipients of special loans or financial assistance from the United States Department of Agriculture have been publicly available in a database on a Web site.More here.
The government had been unaware of the slip-up, which was first reported by FedSpending.org, a non-profit watchdog group. It is thought that between 100,000 to 150,000 farmers were affected by the incident.
posted by Fergie @ 4/23/2007 11:55:00 AM
1 Comments:
Well, this will teach you to travel, fella. :)
The 150k was revised downward to 63k on Friday.
Today it was revised further downward to a paltry (or is that poultry, in this case?) 38,700.
Who knows... maybe if you'd stay'd over there another few days, we'd find out that there never was any breach and the entire USDA has been on psychotropics for 26 years...
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